Two Warriors Fighting
- Medium:
- Woodblock print
- Edition:
- Self-printed
$300–$3,000. Common folk art prints: $300–$800. Key value factors: Mori's cheerful folk art prints are affordably priced. His stencil technique (kappazuri) is distinctive.
Two Warriors Fighting presents the combat of armored samurai — a subject of explosive compositional energy that challenged Mori to capture motion, violence, and the clash of physical forces within the frozen instant of the print medium. Warriors in combat had been a standard subject in Japanese visual culture from the earliest painted scrolls through Edo-period hero prints, and Mori's version brought the genre into the mid-20th century through his bold stencil technique. The composition would have required him to organize two dynamic figures in a relationship of opposition and mutual engagement that read as combat rather than embrace.
Curated cross-cuts that include this print.
Two Warriors Fighting was created by Yoshitoshi Mori (森義利).
Two Warriors Fighting depicts figures and warriors.
